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Toshiba HD-A3 720p/1080i HD DVD Player
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#1 in Electronics > DVD Players & Recorders > DVD Players
#2 in Electronics > DVD Players & Recorders > HD DVD Players
* Date first available at Amazon.com: August 6, 2007
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please press on this link
- http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_n_2?ie=UTF8&rs=172514&rh=n%3A172282%2Cn%3A1065836%2Cn%3A172514%2Cn%3A1036922 (Open in New Window)
Toshiba is only rank 1 in the HD DVD player section, not a big surprice :-)
For all DVD players and recorders ranking, just press on this link:
- http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_ex_n_3?ie=UTF8&rs=1036922&rh=n%3A172282%2Cn%3A1065836%2Cn%3A172514 (Open in New Window)
"Toshiba is only rank 1 in the HD DVD player section, not a big surprice :-)"
You sure about that?
"For all DVD players and recorders ranking, just press on this link:"
That list seems to give the rankings of players listed in DVD PLAYERS AND RECORDERS where the Toshiba HD-A30 doesn't appear to be listed from what I see.
It is listed in ELECTRONICS however where it is the only player to break into the top 30 at number 23, with no BluRay players to be seen.
Crazy way of catagorizing 'competing' players by Amazon and one wonders if it's purely accident to keep the best selling HD-DVD player off the top of the DVD player ranking list, but even so it's obvious that the HD-A30 is the best selling High def source component out there by some margin - at least from Amazon.
Best Regards,
Chris redmond.
electronics is everything electronic including cameras, GPS and iPods with 938,931 results. A USD 37 Philips DVD player is the bestselling DVD Player at rank 92. I see NO Toshiba HD DVD at rank 23. Here the Samsung Blu ray player is rank 145.
It has a subsection, named audio and video with 40,995 results.
No GPS, so here the Samsung Blue Ray player is rank 31.
This again has a subsection called DVD players and recorders with 1,342 results, and with iPods gone the Samsung Blu Ray player is rank 5. The Toshiba HD A2 HD DVD player is rank 23.
Again there is a subsection called DVD players with 261 results, here the Samsung Blu Ray player is rank 3, because more products are gone.
Another subsection is called HD DVD Players with 13 results, here the Toshiba HD A2 is rank 1, no surprice as this section is only for HD DVD players.
There is also a Blu ray player section with 14 results, and here the Samsung Blu Ray player is number 1, as it should be in that section.
Indeed, the Toshiba HD-A30 is not selling much in amazon.com. It is only rank 8 among all HD DVD players.
Press this link to get only HD DVD players
- http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_n_5?ie=UTF8&rs=172514&rh=n%3A172282%2Cn%3A1065836%2Cn%3A172514%2Cn%3A352696011 (Open in New Window)
The information you're seeing is not organized the way you think it is.
The correct way to view the bestsellers in DVD Players is to use the link I have provided.
Don't click on it unless you want a nasty surprise.
". . .Danish, Swedish fluently, and what I remember of my Latin helps me with technical Italian and French."
I guess fluency in foreign languages doesn't help one correctly interpret the data.
.
Wow. Numbers 1, 3, and 4.
BTW, I think Samsung may just be dumping the 1400. They've pretty much dropped the 1200, and withdrew the 2400 (before it was ever released), so they can concentrate on the dual player.
Jack
My link is sorted by bestselling in the right upper corner.
You can also sort by price or by reviews.
My DVD player ranking shows 4 cheap DVD players as the best selling before any HD player.
Do you really believe that a HD player can be number 1 among normal DVD players? Then I can sell you a bridge in London:-)
Does most people buy normal DVD players at USD 37 or USD 24, or do they buy USD 200 HD players?
Also go to Best Buy, and you will find the Samsung Blu Ray player is sold out.
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This is DVD players only in your Bestseller list.
Now the Toshiba HD-A3 is number one.
Conclusion? Amazon have problems counting bestsellers.
see link
Amazon have two different Toshibas standing on rank 1 depending on the list you select. At least one must be wrong.
They are taken within seconds of each other, and retaken twice to make sure they did not change between views.
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Conclusion, these amazon.com "Bestseller" listing cannot be trusted.
And any list with an expensive HD player as number one does not match the reality of sales in USA. Normal cheap DVD players are still the bestsellers.
Blu Ray and HD DVD have together sold maybe 1 million stand alone players in USA in one year.
Normal DVD players sales in USA is about 20 million in one year.
see link for DVD players.
and they are not made public in any but vague terms. In books, they rank the top 10,000 every hour based on sales over 24 hours, but there is also historical data and some sort of predictive algorithm apparently too.
Bottom line, if you do not understand how a number is calculated, you cannot understand its importance or its meaning.
And it never seemed worth much to me to see hourly sales figures at amazon anyway. Can a $300 HD-DVD player outsell a $36 DVD player? In any given hour, of course it can. Over any real time period, very very unlikely.
That's why I always thought it is meaningless to look at amazon's bestsellers, except for a gross indicator of what a few people are buying at the current time.
BluRay players top an Amazon list and it's curtains for HD-DVD, but HD-DVD players top the list and it's....
> Conclusion, these amazon.com "Bestseller" listing cannot be trusted. <
:0)
Best Regards,
Chris redmond.
and everybody, including me, could be wrong :-)
Because we have all trusted amazon, and they have so many different players as number 1.
"and everybody, including me, could be wrong :-)"
Conversely, anyone, including you, could be right! :0)
The only real indication we can have of how the two formats are doing is to compare how many actual discs/titles are being sold (not given free or discounted with a player/gaming machine), and even then the results can be skewed one way temporarily just on the release of one title because of the small numbers at this early stage.
Best Regards,
Chris redmond.
I just bought it at Amazon a few nights ago for $199 delivered, including 10 HD DVDs. To be sure, most of those discs have little attraction for me, but for free I'll take my 10. Maybe I can trade them in somewhere someday for something I want.
I saw the same player last night at Costco also for $199. I'm sure the price will keep fluctuating and will certainly hit or go below the $172 figure I saw at Amazon just after Thanksgiving again.
Joe
I got it at Amazon a couple weeks ago for $179. The price changes daily.
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